Porches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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